Long description

The mind map in this figure has a hierarchical structure. At its root or top level, we find a node with the text ‘Google operators’. That node is connected to six other nodes. These nodes are in turn each connected with two further nodes. For example, one of the six nodes to which ‘Google operators’ is connected is ‘quotation marks’. This node is then connected to ‘example: “tallest tree in the universe”’ and ‘exact phrase’. Another one of the six nodes is ‘minus sign’. This is connected to ‘example: slings and arrows of outrageous fortune -Hamlet’ and ‘search whilst excluding a word’. And so on. The point of this figure is not so much the precise details of the mind map, but rather the similarities and differences between this kind of map and argument maps.